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IoV (Internet of Vehicles) is a promising paradigm to the future of automobiles, which will undoubtedly boost the automobile market as well as accelerate innovation in Internet services and applications. The concept of SD-IoV (Software Defined IoV) is presented, which is capable of improving resource utilization, service quality, and network optimization in the harsh vehicular network environments. First, A generalized SD-IoV architecture as an intuitive big picture is presented. Then, the major functions realized by SD-IoV are elabrated on to illustrate how the current challenges are resolved. As the key enablers of SD-IoV, three possible implementation methods of the wireless control path are described and compared. Finally, the challenges and existing solutions of SD-IoV are disuessed and open issues are pointed out so as to shed light on future research.
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This work is supported by The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
CHEN Jiacheng received his B.Eng. degree from the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, in 2013. He is now pursuing his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. His current research interests include resource management in wireless networks, vehicular ad hoc networks and white space networks. (Email: jiachengl989@gmail.com)
ZHOU Haibo [corresponding author] received the Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2014. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the BBCR (Broadband Communications Research) Group, University of Waterloo. His current research interests include resource management and performance analysis in cognitive radio networks and vehicular networks. (Email: haibozhouuw@gmail.com)
ZHANG Ning received the Ph.D. degree from University of Waterloo in 2015. He received his B.Sc. degree from Beijing Jiaotong University and the M.Sc. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. From May 2015 to April 2016, he was a postdoc research fellow at BBCR lab in University of Waterloo. He is now a postdoc research fellow at University of Toronto. His current research interests include next generation wireless networks, software denned networking, green communication, and physical layer security. (Email: zhangningbupt@ gmail.com)
YANG Peng received his B.Sc. degree from the Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2013. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. degree in the School of Electronic Information and Communications, HUST. From Sept. 2015, he is also a visiting Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. His current research interests include next generation wireless networks and software-defined networking. (Email: yangpeng@hust. edu.cn)
GUI Lin received the Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2002. Since 2002, she has been with the Institute of Wireless Communication Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. Currently, She is a Professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her current research interests include HDTV and wireless communications. (Email: guilin@sjtu.edu.cn)
SHEN Xuemin (Sherman) received the B.Sc. (1982) degree from Dalian Maritime University (China) and the M.Sc. (1987) and Ph.D. degrees (1990) from Rutgers University, New Jersey (USA), all in electrical engineering. He is a Professor and University Research Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. He was the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies from 2004 to 2008. Dr. Shen’s research focuses on resource management in interconnected wireless/wired networks, wireless network security, social networks, smart grid, and vehicular ad hoc and sensor networks. He is a co-author/editor of six books, and has published more than 600 papers and book chapters in wireless communications and networks, control and filtering. Dr. Shen served as the Technical Program Committee Chair/ Co-Chair for IEEE Infocom’14, IEEE VTC’10 Fall, the Symposia Chair for IEEE ICC 10, the Tutorial Chair for IEEE VTC’ll Spring and IEEE ICC’08, the Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE Globecom’07, the General Co-Chair for Chinacom’07 and QShine’06, the Chair for IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Wireless Communications, and P2P Communications and Networking. He also serves/served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Network, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Application, and IET Communications; a Founding Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications; an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Computer Networks, and ACM/Wireless Networks, etc.; and the Guest Editor for IEEE JSAC, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine, and ACM Mobile Networks and Applications, etc. Dr. Shen received the Excellent Graduate Supervision Award in 2006, and the Outstanding Performance Award in 2004, 2007 and 2010 from the University of Waterloo, the PREA (Premier’s Research Excellence Award) in 2003 from the Province of Ontario, Canada, and the Distinguished Performance Award in 2002 and 2007 from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo. Dr. Shen is a registered Professional Engineer of Ontario, Canada, an IEEE Fellow, an Engineering Institute of Canada Fellow, a Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow, and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and Communications Society. (Email: sshen@uwaterloo.ca)
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Jiacheng, C., Haibo, Z., Ning, Z. et al. Software defined Internet of vehicles: architecture, challenges and solutions. J. Commun. Inf. Netw. 1, 14–26 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03391543
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